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Suppose you built a house or cottage. Now, before you had a new task - to create the necessary conditions for the comfort of your home. And what could provide more comfort than a live fire in the fireplace? Contemplation calms the fire, adjusts to philosophical mood and relieves stress stormy day. View tongues of flame calms and distracts from the problems of everyday life, warms the heart and soul into the literal and figurative sense. Today we tell you about this originating from time immemorial details of the home.
Historically, that fire because of the harsh climate does not catch on and always inferior to the furnace. He was seen more as a luxury and prestige. For many he now seems more roads and little functional thing than a convenient and comfortable interior detail. Meanwhile, the market today offers a huge number of fireplaces on a variety of prices – from $ 600-700 for the most simple model to many thousands of dollars.
In the market appeared firm in England, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy, Finland, France, Sweden, offering a wide variety of design and decoration Fireplace kits factory production. A lot of domestic firms offer to make custom-made fireplaces. The market today diverse, and the buyer is important to be guided well in a wide range of proposals. Going in search of his hearth aware that this is no ordinary household item, a symbol of home, stability, comfort and taste of the owner, he should correspond to the modern culture of the home.
Price depends on complexity of the fireplace its design, lining material used and the refinement finish. It is divided as it were on three main components: a fireplace (open or closed, grate and ash pan), flue (the walls of the refractory bricks, the sweeping of the supply under the cap, which is crowned by a high co-current pipe) and the portal. Portal or lining - the most interesting part of the decorative fireplace. That it creates a unique " face ", and that it primarily draws attention to the customer
The selection of material and significantly affects the price of the whole. In traditional fireplaces is often a tree, then a brick; group inexpensive natural stones: tufa, coquina, sandstone; more expensive material - Granite, marble, onyx. In recent years, a growing interest in glass, metal and ceramics.
During the construction of the fireplace can not do without refractory bricks, that can perform in addition to the direct appointment of a purely decorative function. It can not be only the traditional red or yellow, but beige, pink or honey-colored. Laying bricks in a certain way, you can create pattern - herringbone, straight or horizontal stripes to use in free composition. In order to fire was nice and solid, carefully selected wooden shelves. The most frequently used solid wood oak, pine, cherry, walnut, which is subjected to special treatment. To shelves less subject to thermal radiation, they are insulated brick, stone or concrete. Form shelves linked to model the fire, as a rule - U-shape, or in the form of a trapezoid, in rare cases, an oval.
Fireplace should be stylistically homogeneous architecture and decor of the apartment or house in general, in the interior of it plays a structure-role. Design copyright fireplace or selection model of industrial production - it is responsible, difficult and demanding from the authors of the design project a thorough professional training. It is necessary to consider in advance all the architectural features of the house and design the fireplace for specific areas only after approval of the general plan of the house. Traditionally it is most often placed in the corner of the room.
Moreover, it can be installed differently. For example, its facade can act against the background of a few walls, and may be a wall in one plane. Most of the fireplaces is in the living room, where usually sofas, chairs, chair stand, so that sitting are face to the windows. Therefore reasonable to put a fireplace in their field of vision, that is the outer wall. But the free-standing fireplaces also have their admirers. Today, equipped with a good chimney and protective devices open hearth fireplace, set in the center of the room. This option is fine organizes space in a modern interior and a stylistic basis, under which selected the furniture and the rest of the decor. For its construction, as a rule, use the latest technology - Stainless steel, iron, copper, refractory and plate glass, ceramics.
Argued that the fireplace - the heater with low thermal efficiency. Meanwhile, contemporary fireplace, thanks to the use of various improvements, has a much greater thermal efficiency than its predecessors. Design and technical capabilities of today's fireplaces are not inferior to historical patterns, but from the point of view of manufacturing technology in many ways superior to them. To increase the power and heat using fans, heat exchangers, storage heat facing materials, which convert the fireplace into a modern heating system. Fireplaces with a closed iron furnace and an adjustable rod provide Efficiency of 75%. The special design of the chimney pipe to provide a high traction, which is regulated by means of special devices installed output (deflector blower- “ exhauster ” power). With gate (the control knob damper chimney) can regulate combustion and heat output set. For the fireplace creates a special fuel in the form of logs that burn long and evenly (10 hours).
There is a certain category of people who do not mind having a fireplace, but they are not tempted messing around with wood and go for the additional costs of the device chimney. Indeed, in the model homes do so is not always easy. They offer fireplaces with elektrotopkami simulating burning wood, and fans. In fact, this convector heaters and radiant with power rating up to 2 kW, that not only simulate flames, and heat the room nice. Electrofireplaces varied in design and inexpensive.
Fireplace accessories have also become objects of artistic interest. Grate for wood slatted uglesbornik, curling inversion of burning wood, a special plug for agitating the fuel brush on a long handle and shovel to clean the firebox, and fur for inflating the fire poker to break burning coal into smaller pieces, carved wooden boxes and grids for fuel. All of them became the objects of decorative art and continue to inspire contemporary artists and designers. A special part of – fireplace screens that protect the floor of the room from getting to it burning coals, or special mesh through which visible light. In modern models of fireplaces shields are made in the form of wings (shutters) in refractory glass. They come in front, with convex glass in the form of bay windows, semicircular, protecting the open fire in the furnace with two or three sides, and front and back.
Whatever the fireplace, in accordance with the capacity and size of the purse premises, does not appear in your house, it is a natural and environmentally safe source of heat, a wonderful ornament of the home, the symbol of your prosperity and strong family ties. I agree that there is nothing that is responsible concept. “ family home as a fireplace. A consult with the choice and install it you will help specialists.